After spending her meager savings on the picture, Annie prepares an elaborate birthday dinner for two, only to be stood up. Hidden behind a rubber plant on top of a file cabinet, a grimy painting catches her eye. Recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, she is searching in a neglected secondhand shop for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover. In The Improbability of Love we meet Annie McDee, thirty-one, who is working as a chef for two rather sinister art dealers. Its sweeping narrative and cast of wildly colorful characters takes you behind the scenes of a London auction house, into the secret operations of a powerful art dealer, to a flamboyant eighteenth-century-style dinner party, and into a modest living room in Berlin, among many other unexpected settings. Wickedly funny, this totally engaging, richly observed first novel by Hannah Rothschild is a tour de force.
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